> The top 20 US Economics Departments train a majority of PhD economists so “quite common” seems fair. Perhaps if I had commented about PhD students. I specifi

> The top 20 US Economics Departments train a majority of PhD economists so “quite common” seems fair. Perhaps if I had commented about PhD students. I specified "places" because there are lots of places to work, and the miserable folks are mostly found in a small percentage of places you can work as an academic economist. > There is a very visible ranking and you’d get substantial agreement on it from most academic economists. Others are free to define "top" as they wish. I am under no obligation to accept their definition.